Manners for Tokyo’s ‘Tsukin Jigoku’—commuter hell

When the Tokyo subway cars are running at their daily 200% of capacity*, please line up and wait your turn to get kicked in the head.

This month’s manners poster for the Tokyo Metro subway…
2013 jan manners poster tokyo metro subway train
Fair Use — Parody

View the original poster above for January 2013 at the Tokyo Metro Manners Foundation.

tokyo-subway-smash..
Daily Mail | 19 November 2012: Photos reveal squashed Tokyo subway commuters squeezed on to trains
________
*Business Insider | Jan. 11, 2012: Take A Look At Why The Tokyo Metro Is Known As 'Commuter Hell'

Published by

Taro

I'm a pale, alien, quadruped who has worked for 25+ years at "Maybe-the-Largest Inc." in Tokyo.

2 thoughts on “Manners for Tokyo’s ‘Tsukin Jigoku’—commuter hell”

  1. I like the engrishy flavor of the copy on the subway poster…

    “Why do you ignore those waiting
    and cut into line?”

    …that should read, “Why do you ignore those waiting
    by cutting into line?”

Leave a Reply

Your email address will not be published. Required fields are marked *

You may use these HTML tags and attributes: <a href="" title=""> <abbr title=""> <acronym title=""> <b> <blockquote cite=""> <cite> <code> <del datetime=""> <em> <i> <q cite=""> <strike> <strong>